Igniting device for hydrocarbon-burners.



No. 707,852. Patan ted Aug. 26, 1902..

' G. LANE.

IGNITING DEVICE FOR HYDRDCARBON BURNERS.

(Application filed Feb. 8, 1902.)

(No Model.)

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GEORGE LANE, OF POUGI-IKEEPSIE, NEW YORK.

lGNlTlNG DEVICE FOR HY'DROCARBON-BURNERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 707,852, dated August 26, 1902. Application filed February 8, 1902. Serial No. 93,263. (No model.)

To (all whom, it may concern:

Be it knownthat I, GEORGE LANE, a citizen provements in Igniting Devices for HydrOcarhon-Burners, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an igniting device adapted to be employed with hydrocarbonburners of any type, especially those em ployed upon motor-vehicles.

The object sought to-be obtained by my invention is that the ignition device shall be so located as regards the burner that the air used by it to support combustion shall be derived wholly from within the casing in which the burner is located and, further, shall be so located as regards the burner and its casing that once ignited it will remain burning and will not be extinguished by the air currents or eddies which commonly exist in the vicinity of a hydrocarbon-burner.

Theaccompanying drawings will serve to illustrate my invention.

Figure 1 is a plan view showing my igniting device in its relation to a special form of burner. Fig. 2 is a vertical section taken on the line X X of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an end elevation looking from the left of Fig. 1. Fig. 1 is an enlarged sectional detail of the igniting device.

My improved igniting device is shown in the relation which it would bear to a special form of burner. It'will be understood that my igniting device may be used with any type of burner.

In the drawings, 10 represents aburner, which consists in the present case of a centrally-disposed mixing-tube and a series of lateral tubes, both of which are provided with burner-openings at the top. (Shown in dotted lines.) The burner is surrounded by a casing 11, the interior of which forms a combustion-chamber over the burner. Supported within the casing and in proximity to the burner are the vaporizing-tubes 12. Thevaporizing-tubes are connected at one end 13t0 a source of fuel and at the other end to an injector device 14, arranged in front of the mixing-tube of the burner.

15 represents the igniting device. The igniting device consists of a tube 16, having a screw-thread 17 onjts outer end by means of which it is connected to a plate 18, detachably attached, by means of screws 19 or otherwise,

means of the pipe 21, which is connected at one end to the fuel-supply through the vaporizing-tubes 12. The other end has formed through it a small perforation 22.

23 represents a valve for controlling the supplyof fuel to the tube 21.

It will be observed from thebonstruction described that .the igniting device fornis,'in fact, a Bunsen burner, and by reason of its location within the cavity of the casing the air used to support combustion will be warm air and drawn from the interior of the casing, with the result that the flame produced by the igniting device will be a sharp blue flame of considerable intensity. It will also be noted that by reason of the location of the igniting device and the fact that the air-supply openings are wholly within the casing it will be unafiected in operation by air currents or eddies occurring external to the burnercasing.

In the drawings the igniting device is slnow n as arranged under the vaporizing-tube s and in position to heat them when ignited. l, I do not limit myself to any particular position for theigniting device. Further, I do not limit myself to the employment of the device described as an igniting device, as it may be employed in connection with some other form of igniting device, in which case it will serve the purpose of a pilot-light.

24 indicates a small door in the side of the casing through which a match may be introduced to light the igniter.

Having thus described my invention, I claim 1. In combination with a hydrocarbonburner,a closed combustion-chamber within which the burner is situated, a secondary blue-flame burner located within said combustion-chamber, and means for feeding said secondary bl ue-flame burner with the air used miler of said secondary burner drawing its air-supply from within said chamber.

3. In combination with a hydrocarbon burner, a closed combustion-chamber, a secondary blue-flame burner located within said combustion-chamber, means for supplying the main burner and the secondary burner with fuel, and means for supplying the secondary burner with the air used for combustion from within the combustion-chamber.

4. In combination with a hydrocarbonbp rner, vaporizing-tubes for the fuel-supply evt'hereto, a closed combustion-chamber within which said burner and tubes are located, and a secondary blue-flame burner located within said combustion-chamber and under said vaporizing-tubes, and means for supplying said secondary burner with the air used for combustion from within the combustion-chamber.

5: In combination with a hydrocarbonburner, a closed combustion-chamber within which the burner is situated, a secondary blue-flame burner located within the combustion-chamber, means for independently controlling the supply of fuel to said burners, and means for feeding the secondary burner with theair used for combustion from within the combustion-chamber.

6. In combination an injector-burner for hydrocarbon fuel, aclosed combustion-chamber within which the burner is situated and a secondary injector-burner located within the combustion-chamber, the secondary burner drawing its air-supply from within said combustion-chamber.

7. Aninjector-burner adapted to use vapor hydrocarbon fuel, a closed combustion-chamber, a vapor-generator within said combustion-chamber an d a secondary injector-burner arranged to keep saidgenerator hot irrespective of the operation of the main burner, said secondary burner drawing its entire air-supply from inside the combustion-chamber of the main burner.

8. A hydrocarbon-burner, a closed com-. bustion-chamber within which the burner is situated, a secondary injector-burner located Within the combustion-burner, said secondary burner drawing its fuel-supply from without, and its air-supply from within said combustion-chamber.

- 9. A hydrocarbon-burner with an inclosing casing, a secondary injector-burner attached to the wall of said casing and having apertures for the admission of air from within said casing.

10. A hydrocarbon-burner with an iuclosing casing, a secondary burner attached at one end to the wall of said casing and extended inward and provided with apertures for the admission of air from within said casing, and a fuel-supply pipe adapted to deliver vapor fuel from without the easing into the interior of the secondary burner.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE LANE.

Witnesses:

W. J. LANE, J. M. JANES. 

